Garment hanger



March 28, 1950 w. B. MCALLISTER, sR 2,502,164

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ATTCI RN EYB Patented Mar. 28, 1950 UNITED STATES i TENT OFFICE GARMENTHANGER William B. McAllister, Sr., Saginaw, Mich.

Application March 25, 1947, Serial No. 737,012

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to garment hangers, and more particularly to theprovision of a hanger adapted to support pants, skirts, and the like,having various thicknesses of cloth.

It is an object of the invention to provide a pants and skirt hangerhaving, when closed, a thickness not exceeding one inch, and savingspace on a hanger supporting pole.

A further object is to provide a hanger which lies fiat when openenabling the easy insertion of garments.

A further object is to provide a hanger having clamps formed fromcorrugated blocks or blocks having slots to eliminate the use of felt,to hold garments securely.

A further object is to provide a garment hanger which takes care of acomplete suit, or jacket and skirt.

These and other objects are attained by the novel construction andarrangement of parts hereinafter described and illustrated by theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of a hanger embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the manipulation of an element of the devicefor clamping a garment.

Fig. 3 is a side view of one operation in the clamping of a garment,taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side view of another operation in the clamping of a garment.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig 2.

Referring to the drawings. the garment hanger is shown to comprise apair of clamp blocks l and 2, which have corrugated surfaces 3. Attachedto the ends of block 2 are the lower ends 4 of a wire hanger 5, theupper ends of which are connected to a sleeve 6, which threadedlyreceives the stem 1 of a hook 8.

Attached to block 2 is a wire member having spaced legs 9 fixed in theblock 2, the upper end of each leg being looped to form an eye In andextends across to form a bar ll.

Attached to the bar I are two rods l2, spaced apart and having at theirupper ends eyes l3 through which pass the bar II, the eyes serving ashinges to enable bar I to be rotated about the bar ll.

Attached to bar I is a ,ueshaped member l5 with legs 54 havingcorrugations IS, the legs M being fixed in the bar I.

Associated with the bar 2 is a rod l? having at each end a. loop itwhich encircle loosely the legs 9. At each end of the rod I! is a hook59, which hooks serve as finger pieces.

In operation, a garment, such as pants or a skirt, is inserted betweenthe bars I and 2 as shown in Fig. 3. The legs [2 swing outwardly toenable the easy insertion of the garment. The finger pieces l9 are thenpressed down to cause the rod H to engage the corrugated legs M of themember IE to move the bar I in clamping position with bar 2. Thecorrugations 3 on the bars I and 2 cause a tight clamping action, andthe arrangement enables the clamping of garments of various thicknesses.The clamping action is shown in Fig. 4.

When not in use, the hook 8 can be folded into the borders of thehanger, which enables convenient packing of the hanger. When in use, thehanger will take various thicknesses and occupy little space on a rackor hanger pole.

The above description is to be considered as illustrative and notlimitative of the invention of which modifications can be made withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in theappended claim.

The invention having been described, what is claimed is:

In a garment hanger, a first bar and a second bar, said bars havingcorrugated clamping surfaces, a wire bar having legs attached to thesecond bar, rods connected to the first bar and having eyes hingedlyconnected to the wire bar, a u-shaped member having corrugated legsattached to the first bar, and a member slidable on the legs of the wirebar to engage the corrugated legs to urge the first and second bars to aclamping position, said member having finger pieces thereon.

WILLIAM B. MoALLISTER, SR.

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